Chapter 1484: The Sword Points to the Nineteen Eastern Cities [Subscription Request]

Mage corps have always been a luxury in this world.

Even a giant city-level mage tower may not be able to produce a full-staffed single-system mage corps.

Most of them are mixed spellcaster corps.

An independent spellcaster corps is very powerful.

Especially the fire and thunder systems, large-scale offensive magic can achieve a blanket attack.

Even if fireballs and lightning are thrown together, they can cause considerable damage.

As for other systems, considering the characteristics of military coordination and assistance, they are not suitable for independent corps.

And the arcane is a special case in the spellcasting system.

Mainly because the arcane can integrate and infiltrate almost all elemental systems.

After forming a corps, it can well counter the spells cast by the enemy.

Even large-scale natural disaster-level magic can play a certain role in reducing damage.

Therefore, the main responsibility of the arcane corps is not to kill the enemy, but to be a spell defense corps.

Such a configuration was also discussed before.

After asking about the situation, Zong Shen immediately had an idea.

Then he looked at Rexxar and Felonas respectively.

As the beast king, the former has recently taken over the training of war pets and beast pets in the territory.

Including blood-fanged wild boars, scorpion-tailed tigers and griffins.

There are also the five dependent tribes that Xiao Heizi brought back before.

Through continuous domestication and coordination training, they can be more closely integrated with the territory.

Combined with some special training buildings and props, they can reproduce rapidly.

It is expected that it will not take long for the territory to form a complete air cavalry and beast cavalry unit.

Felonas Sinner's main responsibility in the territory recently is to train excellent scouts and assassins.

Zong Shen noticed that all soldiers trained by him can obtain the new soldier prefix of [Apprentice Hunter] and obtain certain attribute improvements.

There is still a big difference between hunters and demon hunters.

Although Felonas cannot transform these trained soldiers into demons, he can indeed let them learn something new.

Different from Jeanne's own French spearman training ability.

The hunter training of Felonas was discovered by Zong Shen accidentally.

Since the end of the defense challenge, the training process of soldiers has changed.

Originally, training soldiers required a matching barracks and specific level training books.

The same type of soldiers had to undergo step-by-step training to grow into high-level warriors.

Now the relevant soldier training process has been simplified a lot.

Or it is closer to reality.

No longer constrained by some semi-digital conditions.

But not all combat heroes have the ability to train soldiers.

At least those heroes with low-level talents can't.

For example, Gugat, Felonas, and Colby have the ability to train soldiers.

Colby can train the 1st to 6th level infantry and cavalry dual-system warriors of the Wild Wolf Clan.

He just selected 1,200 farmers some time ago and formed a trial training brigade.

The current progress is good, but if you want to form combat effectiveness, that is, to reach the level of the second or third level, it is conservatively estimated that it will take 6 to 18 months, which is too long.

Let's practice for now, Zong Shen is not in a hurry.

Compared with self-trained soldiers, it is better to get ready-made soldiers from the natives.

Anyway, in the state of training, those farmers who gradually transform into wild wolf warriors will get different degrees of attribute improvement.

In this regard, it is actually the same as the relationship between looting and farming.

The former can be quickly learned, and it is convenient and fast, provided that the military force meets the standard.

The latter can realize the freedom of training and get rid of the dependence on external resources to a certain extent.

But it takes a long time, the cost is high, and the proportion of non-working population is greatly increased.

The relationship between the two also needs to find a balance point.

Zong Shen's principle is to try to do both.

After all, the current development of the territory has already tended to go on the road of war.

The focus on military affairs is far better than the focus on production development.

In terms of production and construction, there are no major measures except for the continuous construction of residential areas, the expansion of city defense scale and the development of those mining areas and forest farms.

The vast majority of resources still come from plunder.

Several big men gathered together to report on their work in a casual chat mode.

After they all left, Zong Shen also had a certain understanding of the current military scale of the territory.

He soaked in the spring alone, his expression slightly solemn.

"Very good, the current combat power of the territory can basically meet the requirements."

"Maybe I should take some more radical actions..."

Leaning on the spring, his head tilted up slightly.

From 0 to 1 is a threshold, and each increase in the number of troops in the future represents a step to a higher stage.

He raised his hand and took out a medium-sized map from the storage compartment.

It depicts the main giant cities and terrain distribution of the Kingdom of Avalon.

Although it is not as detailed as his continental sand table, it is still very intuitive in front of him.

The first giant city to the east of the territory is Dagalisni.

Continue to move forward until the seaside. There are 19 giant cities in the hundreds of thousands of kilometers of territory, including parts of the southern and northern regions.

Many giant cities are tens of thousands of kilometers apart.

Even the distance between Luntax and Dagalisni is more than 10,000 kilometers.

The territory is located between the two and closer to Luntax.

More than 4,000 kilometers to the west is Luntax, and 8,000 to 9,000 kilometers to the east is Dagalisni. This geographical location relationship is actually not difficult to understand.

If Zong Shen can break through these 19 cities, he can completely open up the territory to the eastern coastal area.

But if he wants to form a large area, he has to continue to expand to the north and south.

If he takes over the entire large area with a total of 33 giant cities, he can occupy a place in the entire eastern part of Avalon.

In the short term, Zong Shen only needs to consider the 19 giant cities.

Starting from the Dagalisni Giant City, the end point of the eastward advance is the two giant cities on the coast.

They are the Hague Giant City and the Port of Elara.

If he continues to expand, there are also the Whirlpool Bay and the Kekalima Islands.

These are important node cities on the eastern coast.

The 19 giant cities listed as limited targets by him go straight to the east, forming a through shape.

Excluding the Dagalisni Giant City, there are a total of five giant cities under the control of Grand Duke Chloe.

Mainly those near the sea, which are currently the "playground" of Princess Anna.

Grand Duke Chloe's influence in the east is actually not as great as he thought before, and the core of his power is still concentrated in the southeast.

As long as he takes the 19 eastern cities with thunderous force, it will be difficult for Grand Duke Chloe to control him.

The remaining 13 huge cities all belong to neutral nobles.

Before this, they were also the objects of competition and wooing by Grand Duke Jonathan and Grand Duke Chloe.

As far as Zong Shen knows, there are still some local churches and large knights involved.

The power pyramid composed of land feudalism is like this, and the phenomenon of local decentralization is very obvious.

The wealth system composed of land output, resources and population makes feudalism based on land.

The local situation will not be very stable.

There are many opportunities to fish in troubled waters.

In the past, Zong Shen would definitely study it carefully.

Now it doesn't matter, just use military force to push forward. It's better for him to bring people in in advance and attack from both inside and outside. There is no need to engage in any fancy conspiracy.

Putting away the map, he closed his eyes and immediately summarized the information of the 19 cities.

Then export it through the [Primary Spiritual Virtual Network] and transmit it to the city hall of the territory, and they will hand it over to the staff department for research.

As for the giant city of Dagalisni, he would have to go there in person first.

It would not be too late to go there after he dealt with the matter of the Blood War God.

Moreover, the 20 million people and more than one million soldiers just brought from Grand Duke Jonathan also needed to be properly settled.

Soldiers, spellcasters and craftsmen were in their positions.

Shaking his head, he put aside his distracting thoughts, soaked in the [Moon Spring], and began to condense his clones, rushing to make more clones before trouble came.

The next strategy required him to keep an eye on all directions and listen to all directions.

…

Inside the Marquis Castle of the giant city of Dagalisni.

At noon, the weather near the giant city was gloomy.

The surrounding farms and manors were busy harvesting wheat, and mills could be seen everywhere.

There were several types of mills in the Endless Continent, the most common of which were water mills built by streams and wind mills built on slopes. In addition, there were manual mills that employed strong laborers and animal power.

After all, it is a world with extraordinary power, so the intensity and potential of the labor force are naturally needless to say.

Using people as animals is definitely not an exaggeration.

There are even many strong slaves who are stronger than mules and horses, and the corresponding purchase cost will be higher.

As for the rarest one, it is the magic mill. Its comprehensive cost is the highest, but its efficiency is also the highest.

The mills belonging to the Clift family are all magic mills.

The huge magic mill keeps turning driven by the magic core and a series of mechanical axles.

It produces a large amount of white flour and yellow bran powder.

Most of them will be sent directly to the bakery, mixed with a small amount of butter, milk and eggs, and baked into durable bread bricks.

The remaining flour is divided into two parts.

One part is stored in the form of powder in high-level storage tools.

The other part is baked into soft and sweet exquisite bread, cakes and various pastries.

The mill covers a large area, with a length and width of hundreds of meters.

The Clift family has four magic mills of this scale in and outside the city.

There are also a large number of manors, pastures, orchards, etc.

All the Clift family's properties will hang the family flag.

There are long swords and tigers on it, representing bravery and sharpness.

However, this is only the glory of the ancestors of the Clift family.

There has been no war here for hundreds of years. The children of the Clift family will choose to follow the great nobles in other regions when they are young and become squires or servants.

This is a good way to expand your network and improve your own abilities.

But relatively speaking, the children of the Clift family are indeed not as martial as other noble families.

This has been the case for several generations.

Commerce and agriculture and animal husbandry have been the focus of the Clift family in recent years.

At this time, the ruler of the giant city of Dagalisni, Marquis Ekmeledin Clift, was inspecting the family's mill.

Start to prepare for the arrival of war.

The development model of the giant city of Luntax is probably regarded as a benchmark by him.

In terms of development progress, the overall scale of Dagalisni is only about three-quarters of that of Luntax, and the trade volume is far less than that of the former Luntax city.

Now the Luntax city, which he regarded as a weather vane, has been destroyed.

It is impossible to say that Marquis Ekmeledin Clift is not nervous.

While inspecting the operation of the mill, he listened to Hisham Conway who had just returned.

He was the chief political officer of Dagalisni and also a baron of the kingdom.

"The other party readily agreed to the request for an alliance."

"But after entering the new city, I found several strange places."

"First, the commercial streets in the city are relatively deserted. Although there are a large number of residents, they are generally engaged in boring labor such as logging and stone cutting."

"The presence of commerce and agriculture is very weak."

"Second, there are many foreign soldiers in the city, and even wolf cavalry that has disappeared for thousands of years."

"Those wolf cavalry belong to the Wild Wolf Clan, and this clan once ruled the eastern grasslands of Avalon until it was destroyed in a disaster more than 6,000 years ago."

"Due to the lack of documents, I cannot find out more details for the time being."

Baron Hisham Conway reported seriously, and he was still quite perceptive.

To this, Marquis Ekmeledin Clift nodded solemnly.

"The appearance of that new city is so strange."

"According to the report from the Yellow Daisy Merchants, it was a wasteland a year ago."

"Because it is adjacent to the burial ground, most caravans take a detour."

"There are not many villages around, but in just one year, a settlement comparable to a giant city has emerged."

"Perhaps the Chosen Son mentioned by old scholar Cole is true."

"It is definitely not his last words in his later years."

The Chosen Son is not a big secret in the Endless Continent.

But it is not known to everyone.

For those families who lack historical background and academic research, this is a very unfamiliar concept.

But after summarizing various information, Marquis Ekmeledin Clift could not help but make associations and speculations.

Baron Hisham Conway did not express his opinion on this issue.

It is almost impossible to build a giant city-level settlement within a year.

If there is no abnormality in it, he would find it strange.

He has also heard a little about the concept of the Chosen Son, which is said to involve secrets of more than 10,000 years.

Even though the average life expectancy and time sequence of the Endless Continent are very long.

But for ordinary people, thousands or even tens of thousands of years are still a bit long.

This ancient era has a sense of strangeness.

It is difficult for people to associate it with what is happening now.

"Cooperating with the lord who is suspected to be the chosen one is just a test."

"When will the large mercenary groups we hired arrive?"

"This time, nearly 50% of the military expenditure under normal circumstances was used to invite the hundreds of thousands of reinforcements."

Marquis Ekmeledin Clift turned his head and looked at Hisham Conway and asked.

His hair was combed meticulously, looking dignified and elegant.

But his tone was full of uneasiness and a strong reluctance after spending a lot of money.

... (End of this chapter)